Incongruous images of modern life at Gettysburg re-enactments

Pickup trucks moving cannons? A Canon camera in your Confederate uniform pocket? Tens of thousands of re-enactors and spectators are in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, this week to
commemorate the 150th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of the American civil war. While many are committed to recreating the past, this moment of living history is not without its modern conveniences

An ambulance departs at the end of a Pickett's Charge re-enactment. Several people were taken away from the event due to heat exhaustion, which is actually pretty accurate when you consider that the original battle took place in 90-degree July heat and all of the participants were wearing wool uniforms

A cannon is moved to a new position with the aid of a truck, which provides significantly more horsepower than the actual horses originally used during the war. Estimates of the number of horses killed at Gettysburg range from 1,000 to 5,000

Images from the actual battle and its aftermath were widely circulated. Photographer Alexander Gardner, an associate of Matthew Brady, worked on the staff of Union General George McClellan and was given the honorary rank of captain for his work. He did not have a digital camera

Nothing incongruous here. We'll leave you with a photo of an absolutely committed-to-his-hobby Jim Jones, who is doing everything right. The 65-year-old, acting out a Wisconsin soldier, poses for a portrait after Pickett's Charge